One word Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet…

— Maureen Howard

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

— James Agee

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

— Theodore Dreiser

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

— Susan Sontag

A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.

— Theodore Dreiser

There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.

— Joseph Joubert

Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.

— Brian Chippendale

I enjoy finding the right word and giving each its full measure, its full space in a sentence.

— Miriam Margolyes

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

— Abraham Lincoln

There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.

— Doris Humphrey

Reading allows you to go into a space that nothing else can take you to.

— Eric Thomas